Re: PostgreSQL 8 install fails (initdb)

koester(at)x-itec(dot)de writes:
> I have downloaded release 8.x for installation. Compilation and so on
> works fine (FreeBSD 5.2.1)

> initdb fails with the following informations:

> copying template1 to template0 ... cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/16384: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17175: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17180: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17183: Invalid argument
> cp: /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1/17185: Invalid argument
> ...
> FATAL: could not initialize database directory
> DETAIL: Failing system command was: cp -r '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1' '/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/17229'
> HINT: Look in the postmaster's stderr log for more information.
> child process exited with exit code 1
> initdb: removing data directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data"

> Anything I can do?

Complain to some FreeBSD hackers? This seems like it must be a kernel
bug (or perhaps a bug in cp itself). I don't think Postgres did
anything wrong.

regards, tom lane